Sewing-machine binder



(No Model.)

E. BUKIESf SEWING MACHINE BINDER.

No. 576,947. Patented Feb. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. EUGENE BUKIES, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THE SINGERMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

SEWING-MACHINE BINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,947, dated February9, 1897. Application filed August 31, 1894. Serial No. 521,811. (Nomodel.)

T 0 all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE BUKIEs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-MachineBinders, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

In the use of binding-guides for sewing-machines in applying, thin,flimsy, or sleazy binding to fabrics the bindingis apt to be stretchedsomewhat, so that it is drawn tighter along the edges of the fabrics towhich it is applied than is desirable, and the binding being thusstrained lengthwise is somewhat stretched or drawn out, so as to benarrower than it should be. My invention has for its object to avoidthis objection, and this object is effected by providing a pivoted armor shank by which the binder or binding-guide is carried, and whichpivoted arm or shank is in the form of my invention herein shownprovided with a pin extending downward through a slot in thethroat-plate, so as to engage the feed-bar of the machine beneath saidthroat-plate or some part moving with the feed-bar, and thus the saidarm or shank and the binder carried thereby will be moved back and forthwith the said feed-bar. Thus as the work to which the binding is beingapplied is moved forward by the feed the binder or binding-guide willmove with it and will remain forward until the needle descends andpierces the work, when the binder will be moved backward with the feed,the binding slipping through the bindingguide as the latter is movedbackward, and as the binding is held by the needle at'the time of thebackward movement of the binding-guide there is less strain upon thebinding and less stretching of the latter than when a stationarybindinguide is employed. As the feeding devices of sewing-machines aretimed so that they make their backward or return movements when theneedle is in the work it will be understood that to whatever form ofsewing-machine my improved binder or binding-guide may be applied theneedle will always hold the binding as the binder or binding-guide ismoved backward with the feed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved binder in connection with the throat-plate of a sewingmachine.Figs. 2 and 3 are plan and side views, respectively, of the same. Fig.4is an end view of the same, looking from the left of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5is a sectionon line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

A denotes the throat-plate of a sewing-machine, provided withfeed-openin gs a and with a needle-opening c.

B denotes a plate which is to be attached to the work-plate of thesewing-machine and which is provided with a series of pins 1), betweenwhich the binding is to be'passed to give it a suitable tension.

0 is a shank or arm pivoted at c to the plate B, and to the forward endof which shank or arm is attached the binder or binding-guide D, whichmay be of any ordinary or suitable construction. The shank O is providedwith a pin 0', which extends downward through a slot a in thethroat-plate A, and which pin is to engage the feed-bar of themachine,working beneath the said throat-plate or some suitableprojection on said feed-bar in such a man ner that as the said feed-baris reciprocated back and forth horizontally the said shank or arm willbe vibrated slightly on its pivot, thus moving the binder orbinding-guide D at the forward end of said shank or arm in a horizontaldirection approximately parallel with the movement of the work.

will move forward with it, and when the needle descends and pierces thebinding and work the binding will be held and the binder orbinding-guide may return with the feed when the latter is retracted, thebinder or bindingguide slipping backward on the binding strip or braid.Thus by providing a movable binding-guide and furnishing the same withmeans whereby it may be engaged with the feeding device of thesewing-machine it will be seen that the said binder or binding-guidewill always be moved forward with the work to the extent equal to themovement of the feed, whatever may be the movement of the latter, and asthe binding will be held by the needle when the feed is movedbackward'there will be less strain on the binding and less stretching offlimsy or sleazy binding than would Thus as the work is fed forward thebinding-guide and binding occur with the use of a stationary binder orbinding-guide.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent- 1. The combination with a sewing-machine throat-plateprovided with a slot, of a horizontally-movable binding-guide, a part bywhich said guide is carried, and a pin extending through said slot andserving to connect said guide-carrying part with the feeding device ofthe sewing-machine so that said guide will be reciprocated horizontallywith said feeding device.

2. The combination with a sewing-machine throat-plate provided with aslot, of a bi nding-guide, a horizontally-movable part, as the shank O,by which said binding-guide is carried and which is provided with a pin,as 0, extending through said slot to be engaged with the feeding deviceof the machine.

The combination with the throat-plate A provided with the slot a of theplate 13 provided with the tension-pins b, the shank O pivoted to saidplate B and provided at its free end with the binding-guide D, saidshank being also provided with a pin 0 extending downward through thesaid slot 0. so as to engage the feeding device of a sewing-niachine.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE BUKIES. Witnesses:

II. T. Firms, 0. F. SOHLEY.

